filed in Android on Jan.08, 2010
Today Google has started the “Near Me Now” service for mobile devices running Android and the iPhone/iPod touch devices. This service might be tough competition to Qype and Yelp in the future – the current content quality is a good start but still has some miles to go (depending on the quality of local content [...]
filed in Browser, Technology, Uncategorized on Nov.15, 2009
Google Wave caught our interest during the keynote at this years Google I/O conference in San Francisco. We got the early invite and we are playing around ever since wishing for more time to do some work with wave soon.
Anyways, everyone interested in learning more about Google Wave check out this comprehensive online book titled [...]
filed in Event, Mobile Gadgets, Technology, Uncategorized on Nov.13, 2009
Yesterday i went over to the Google offices in downtown Munich for the special Wave event. Wave is interesting in many ways and after watching the Keynote live held by Stephanie Hannon, Lars and Jens Rasmussen during the second day of this years Google I/O in my second home town of San Francisco i was [...]
filed in Browser, Technology on Oct.05, 2009
The Open Screen project from Adobe got another interesting backing member: Google. This according to an article in SiliconIndia . The interesting part of this initiative may be its influence into the mobile world. Nokia hopes to beef up its Web Runtime environment (WRT) with some Open Screen related API entensions and direct support for [...]
filed in Browser on Oct.04, 2009
Alex Russel of Dojo fame (and now Google guy) has developed a plugin for Microsoft IE which embeds the Google Chrome technology into the IE browser. The Google Chrome Frame is another open source project from Google. In short the plugin allows the user (or merely the web content side) to upgrade IE without any [...]
filed in Android, Android Device, Technology on Apr.28, 2009
Right before the deadline – drawn by Vodafone’s HTC Magic rollout in Germany this thursday – Google announced the availability of the final Android 1.5 SDK. There is also a build for the HTC G1 Dev device available as the Google blog states:
“I am also happy to let you know that our partners at HTC [...]
filed in Android on Feb.12, 2009
The latest Android SDK release 1.1 r1 is available from the (refreshed) Google Android developers site. According to the Android blog carriers started to update the build via OTA onto G1 devices. A new image to be used to flash the open developers device (also G1 hardware) shall be available soon.
This list of changes does [...]